"Looking for Friends without having to Go Down the Organised Team Sport/Club Route"

As the Chasers did their internet dating "experiment", I decided to do my own internet friends experiment.

The Chasers' results:

"Pretty in Pink": Average girl looking for a nice guy, outcome: 7 hits.
"Lord-is-my-Shepard": Hot looking religious nut with a policy of ONLY chaperoned dates, no sex before marriage, seeking for a guy to do mission work in third world countires, outcome: 15 hits.
"Fun Gal": Really, really, REALLY hot looking chick, married with a husband dying of cancer, looking for hot sex to meet her needs, outcome: 360 hits.

Obviously, all the above profiles were fake. Moral of the story: all the internet dating cliches are true, guys are idiots. (Why do women want to live with them, I don't know. Most women seem to end up complaining about how they have to pick up after their slobby male counterpart and all that other domestic mundane crap.) But seriously, if you had seen how the Chasers' experiment played out, NOBODY would ever want to admit that they've tried internet dating.

The Closetblonde's "Looking-For-Friends" experiment:
Results: 2 hits. One young Irish guy (nice, but little in common), one fantastic world citizen :)

Why so few hits? Was it my pepper spray comment or because the Gumtree friends section seems to be mainly monopolised by guys looking to "hang out" and asking girls to "please send a photo and let me know what kind of fun you're willing to get up to". As I said before, guys are idiots. Fuck buddies are NOT friends, and you should be posting in the fricking "casual sex" section, NOT the friends section. Grrrr.

/end rant. Personally, I thought my ad was pretty cool. You be the judge:

Random conversation with a good cup of coffee in one hand - (or should I say a pint seeing that we're in Ireland after all). Run Lola Run. Hospital Records - (London Elektricity, High Contrast, Cyantific - woohoo!). Groove Armada. Fatboy Slim. Basement Jaxx. Music festivals. Globe trotting for cultural thrills. Flight of the Conchords. Eagle vs Shark. Fashion and Design. Food. What's with the fluro that's back in fashion?!?!

If the above words and the pictures mean something to you and make you smile, why don't you drop me a line?

Life isn't meant to be about grocery shopping, laundry and collecting screaming kids from school. Instead of accepting a life of weekend trips to my local hardware store to buy tomato plants, I decided to challenge myself by moving city/country/continents/hemispheres to a place where I wouldn't know a single soul. I have a car, I have a house, and I have wireless internet (very important, har har), and the only thing missing now is a group of friends to find that elusive, quirky hidden gem of a bar or coffee shop.

In case people are wondering, I am a 26 year old girl. I would be happy hanging out with either girls or guys (and guys, when I say as friends, I mean friends. Anybody up to any funny business, be warned. I know some pretty spectacular karate moves - one of them is called pepper spray. Just kidding. Maybe... Hahahah).


Signing off, Closetblonde. XXX

Postscript: Maybe I should have posted my photo instead, Chaser style - one from the shoulders up and another incorporating chest up. They did this in their experiment, and the pic showing the girl's boobs got more hits than shoulders only. Yeah, guys are idiots. And it probably wouldn't have worked for me seeing that I'm completely flat chested :p Tee hee hee.....

PPS: I know that I'm sounding really harsh towards guys in this blog entry, but I one time did tell a guy that I thought men were one of the most stupid creatures on earth, and he totally agreed with me. (Intelligent boy. That, or maybe he was trying to get into my pants.) Meanwhile, on the side of town, people on their high horses are saying in high pitched voices, "Oh, but you just haven't been in love. Once you fall in love, you will be wanting babies and that white picket fence" and blah de blah de blah........... Not listening any more..... This is the real life people. There is not a person for everybody. And not everybody finds love. If love was a guarantee in life, there wouldn't be stupid guys wanting fuck buddies in the "friends" section of Gumtree.